Thursday, 9 November 2017

A boxing coach in Houston staged his own death after discovering his wife had hired a hit man to kill him.

Ramon
Sosa, 50, began working with the FBI and Houston detectives to prove
that Maria “Lulu” Sosa, 43, attempted to have him killed. She
unknowingly exposed her intentions by attempting to hire a hitman, who,
coincidentally, turned out to be a friend and former boxing student of
Ramon's.

In order to prove without the shadow of a doubt that his
wife had actually paid someone to have him killed, Sosa had to make
himself dead, using makeup, and lying in a shallow grave in the desert
with what appears to be a gunshot to his right temple and fake blood
dripping on his face and naked torso.

He then had to lay low until the police nailed his wife, who apparently laughed when she saw the photo of her dead husband.

“Unwittingly,
she had approached a guy called Gustavo to see if he could organize the
hit, without realizing we were friends,” Ramon told The Sun. “I knew
him because I'd coached him. He'd been in trouble in the past. At first,
when he called and said he needed to see me because someone 'wanted to
kill me' I thought he was joking. Then we devised a plan, for him to
wear a wire and tape her offering money to have me killed, before
turning the evidence over to the cops.”
Lulu offered Gustavo a mere £1,500 ($1960 USD) to murder her husband.
Unfortunately for her, Gustavo had taped a microphone under his clothes
and recorded the entire exchange. He then immediately turned the
incriminating evidence over to Houston Police.

“After recording
his meeting with her, where Gustavo pretended to know two hitmen, we
took the tape to the police, who were shocked — but came up with a great
plan. They asked me to pretend to be dead, so we could show the
pictures to Lulu,” Ramon said.

Sosa was then made up by the police
to look as though he had a bullet hole in his right temple and blood
streaming down his face. He was driven out to the Texan desert where he
posed in a shallow grave for the graphic photos. “Lying in the dirt,
pretending to be dead, was terrifying,” Ramon recalled. “When I first
met Lulu, I certainly didn't expect our relationship to end like that.”

Ramon
spent the next three days hiding in a hotel, while undercover police
officers set up a meeting with his wife to show her proof that he was
dead and collect their money.

“A 'hitman' who was actually an
undercover police officer, met Lulu in a parking lot and showed her the
pictures,” said Ramon. “She apparently laughed.”
Lulu's attempt on his life came as a shock to Ramon. The divorced
father of three had met Lulu in 2007 at a club and was instantly
infatuated with her beauty. The pair hit it off and were married three
years later in April 2010. Their marriage appeared to be a happy one, at
least in Ramon's eyes, until 2015 when financial troubles began to
cause a strain.

“I thought we'd work through it,” said Ramon. “Then, out of the blue, Lulu said, 'I want a divorce.'”

What
he didn't expect was that instead of a divorce she would make an
attempt on his life. Thanks to the intervention of his friend, and the
Houston Police, in October 2016, Lulu pleaded guilty to solicitation of
murder and was jailed for 20 years.